A sugar can melt away cholesterol
Dose of sweet molecule removed plaques from mice’s hardened arteries
![cholesterol crystals in mouse arteries](https://i0.wp.com/www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/040816_ti_cholesterol_free.jpg?fit=860%2C460&ssl=1)
PLAQUE BE GONE A sugar called cyclodextrin stopped cholesterol crystals (white) from building up in the arteries of mice on a high-fat diet. Mice that had fewer cholesterol crystals also had fewer inflammation-causing immune cells called macrophages (red). Blue indicates nuclei of cells.
S. Zimmer et al/Science Translational Medicine 2016